"Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable"

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Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Dunn

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